I have a Star LC-10 printer and as you can guess, the ribbon (black, not colour) is probably drier than blue touch paper. I'm considering getting the LC-10 out and making a few signs for the shed, purely because it's an option I have.

Is there a decent "refill" fluid and technique available, or am I best off just forgetting this avenue and using my PC for said signage?

Weird I have been looking for a dot matrix printer the last few days, sold me Epson LX only a few years ago regret that now.
A company I did work for used to dump the dry ribbons in some kind of ink but it was not as fluid, i've never seen it since so I guess you can refurb the ribbons somehow, big huge printer that was Tally I think.

Weird I have been looking for a dot matrix printer the last few days, sold me Epson LX only a few years ago regret that now.
A company I did work for used to dump the dry ribbons in some kind of ink but it was not as fluid, i've never seen it since so I guess you can refurb the ribbons somehow, big huge printer that was Tally I think.

I got a dot matrix mono in loft, spare ribbon as well, don't think its hardly been used, boxed, can't remember what it was LX or LC or something...

Weird I have been looking for a dot matrix printer the last few days, sold me Epson LX only a few years ago regret that now.
A company I did work for used to dump the dry ribbons in some kind of ink but it was not as fluid, i've never seen it since so I guess you can refurb the ribbons somehow, big huge printer that was Tally I think.

I got a dot matrix mono in loft, spare ribbon as well, don't think its hardly been used, boxed, can't remember what it was LX or LC or something...

Still a bit torn over if this a good choice vs the cheapness of laser printers now I already have 3 lasers, 2 mono 1 colour.
1 in a box as a backup the other 2 get worked hard and quality has fallen a bit on images but on text which is 95% what they have to do there ok.

A HP mono laser toner is running about £6 to £11 that's just as low as ribbon, but would it out last a ribbon?
The Dell (really a Xerox phaser) is about £15-20 per 4 colour toners.
The Ricoh mono is about £15 per toner too.

Buy a cheap inkjet and buy a 5L tub of black in from my store, last forever I print my leaflets that way, cost per page is pretty low, printed out thousands of pages mostly text, don't think i've gone past a 5L tub yet lol.. got loads of um, do you deal for 2

Think refill ink (well jettec stuff which I only use) is like 30ml x 3 for £3 I think ? so like 30ml £1 is pretty crap.. in effect be £166 for 5L, mines like £68 for same stuff..

Or do what everyone else does, but dirt cheap ink form evilbay, and buy a new print head every 100 pages

Or do what everyone else does, but dirt cheap ink form evilbay, and buy a new print head every 100 pages

Inkjets are banned in this house
The reason they eat the printheads is the cheap ink is missing the lubricants, that's what I was always told when I did work for HP printers.
You need the 2nd cheapest ink they would usually say

Most what I print is order forms pure text that gets cut up anyhow so a dot matrix would be perfect.
There quite expensive lately it seems from eBay, costing more than some mono lasers

I have a Brother Brother HL5340D (Mono Laser) For the PC (It does have parallel, hmm) Had it about 5 years ish, Ebay special. Great for text, shyte for graphics, but for its intentional purpose it's not bad.